Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.


The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy (ed. Harvard University Press, 1982) - ISBN: 9780674267756

Walter Lippmann Quotes

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it...

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it...

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it...

Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it...